Mohamed Moumou

Mohamed Moumou (30 July 1965-5 October 2008), also known as Abu Qaswarah or Abu Qaswarah al-Skani, was the second-in-command of the Al-Qaeda in Iraq movement until his death.

Biography
Mohamed Moumou was a Swedish national from Morocco, and he took on the alias of "Abu Qaswarah al-Skani", meaning "Father of Qaswarah the Swede". In the 1990s he trained in Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan and founded the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group. While in Sweden, he was the "uncontested leader of an extremist group centered around the Brandbergen Mosque" in the Stockholm suburb of Haninge. Säpo, the Swedish intelligence agency, had been keeping an eye on him since the mid-1990s, suspecting him of leading an Islamist network that supported terrorism abroad. He recruited Jihadists to fight in Iraq from his base in Sweden. He also took part in terrorist attacks and fought in Afghanistan in the 1990s.

On 5 October 2008, while fighting in the Iraq War for Al-Qaeda in Iraq (an Al-Qaeda splintergroup), he was killed in a firefight with the US Army in a house in the city of Mosul. Moumou had risen to become the second-in-command of the organization, and his death was a great blow.